Porth v. Brodrick’s Empirical Analysis
214 F.2d 925 · 1954
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Cupp v. Commissioner (1975), United States v. Porth (1970)
18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Levering & Garrigues Co. v. Morrin · United States v. Harris · Marcus Brown Holding Co. v. Feldman · Hodges v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the requirements of the tax laws were to be classed as servitude, they would not be the kind of involuntary servitude referred to in the Thirteenth Amendment .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.